Scum & Villainy in.....The Force Awakens !

By Barry Harker, in X-Wing

Not Sure if anyone else has noticed this.

or Mentioned it before on here.

As all Star Wars fans are looking forward to the next film.

I have been watching all of the TV spots on you tube.

and noticed something in a now familiar scene.............

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Can you see it ?

Yep.....

....That's the robot from Portal 2, innit?

A certain flag among all of those colorful flags......

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not sure if its just an easter egg, product placement....or just a bit of fun from the production crew.

but, there it is.

the flag of the SCUM & VILLAINY

All the best,

Barry :D

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theres a happy face in the top left

There's all kinds of little references in those flags. Someone somewhere has identified a large number of them.

All the other flags are the pod racing flags from TPM. Very cool references.

Has anakins pod racing flag. Also isn't that the mandalorian symbol

..could also be the new logo of an intergalactic burger-franchise.

of course that idea is stolen - see blue milk special / McLukas ;-)

Has anakins pod racing flag. Also isn't that the mandalorian symbol

Yeah. Some folks don't know that.

And I still say that robot standing guard looks like it could be Rey's speeder bike...

I want to say FFG were the ones that first started using the Mandalorian symbol for generic Scum and Villainy factions. I've seen it in the LCG and Imperial Assault as well.

I want to say FFG were the ones that first started using the Mandalorian symbol for generic Scum and Villainy factions. I've seen it in the LCG and Imperial Assault as well.

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Zann_Consortium

Yep, Hondo's flag is right next to the droid armpit.

It's a Mythosaur skull, a Mandalorian sigil, and it irritates me to no end that FFG picked it to use for the S/V faction symbol.

I want to say FFG were the ones that first started using the Mandalorian symbol for generic Scum and Villainy factions. I've seen it in the LCG and Imperial Assault as well.

It's a Mythosaur skull, a Mandalorian sigil, and it irritates me to no end that FFG picked it to use for the S/V faction symbol.

Wizards of the Coast also used that symbol for their mercenary faction in the Star Wars Miniatures Game. When they finally added Mandalorians as a separate faction, they were locked into that symbol and ended up using the Mythosaur for both factions. They only altered the colors between the two factions.

It's a Mythosaur skull, a Mandalorian sigil, and it irritates me to no end that FFG picked it to use for the S/V faction symbol.

Why? The most famous bounty hunter / mercenary in the franchise used it. Makes perfect sense to me.

It's a Mythosaur skull, a Mandalorian sigil, and it irritates me to no end that FFG picked it to use for the S/V faction symbol.

Why? The most famous bounty hunter / mercenary in the franchise used it. Makes perfect sense to me.

Because Jango Fett was a mandalorian, so all the clones were as was Boba

It's a Mythosaur skull, a Mandalorian sigil, and it irritates me to no end that FFG picked it to use for the S/V faction symbol.

Why? The most famous bounty hunter / mercenary in the franchise used it. Makes perfect sense to me.

Because Jango Fett was a mandalorian, so all the clones were as was Boba

That's really more on Lucas for spreading Mandalorians all over the place like that. When it was just Boba Fett with the Mandalorian armor it made sense (but then again Georgie also took the uniqueness of the Jedi and all the "last of the Jedi will you be stuff" and stuffed it up a gooberfish, so...)

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It's a Mythosaur skull, a Mandalorian sigil, and it irritates me to no end that FFG picked it to use for the S/V faction symbol.

Why? The most famous bounty hunter / mercenary in the franchise used it. Makes perfect sense to me.

Because Jango Fett was a mandalorian, so all the clones were as was Boba

I prefer the version where an unknown Bounty Hunter killed Boba Fett and assumed the name some time before the events of the first Star Wars film. That was going to be the plot of an unreleased game.

If that's the case then the Bounty Hunter known as Boba Fett is just wearing the Mandalorian armor with out any ties to the culture. And it explains why Boba Fett in Empire doesn't have the silly accent that Jango and Boba Fett had in Attack of the Clowns.

And the special editions are not real Star Wars movies, because the 1980 film "The Empire Strikes Back" was directed by Irvin Kershner, and won several academy awards.

The parts the movie won awards for, the special effects, and sound design, were all changed with new sounds and new terrible looking computer effects. George Lucas's 90s version is not the same Academy Award winning movie. Furthermore, he was not the director so he had no right to alter another artist's work.

And that is why I don't consider the altered voice of Boba Fett as canon, because Empire Strikes Back (1997) is a different movie!

It's a Mythosaur skull, a Mandalorian sigil, and it irritates me to no end that FFG picked it to use for the S/V faction symbol.

Why? The most famous bounty hunter / mercenary in the franchise used it. Makes perfect sense to me.

Because Jango Fett was a mandalorian, so all the clones were as was Boba

That's really more on Lucas for spreading Mandalorians all over the place like that. When it was just Boba Fett with the Mandalorian armor it made sense (but then again Georgie also took the uniqueness of the Jedi and all the "last of the Jedi will you be stuff" and stuffed it up a gooberfish, so...)

There were two characters in the Mandalorian armor. Not just Boba Fet.

It's a Mythosaur skull, a Mandalorian sigil, and it irritates me to no end that FFG picked it to use for the S/V faction symbol.

Why? The most famous bounty hunter / mercenary in the franchise used it. Makes perfect sense to me.

Because Jango Fett was a mandalorian, so all the clones were as was Boba

That's really more on Lucas for spreading Mandalorians all over the place like that. When it was just Boba Fett with the Mandalorian armor it made sense (but then again Georgie also took the uniqueness of the Jedi and all the "last of the Jedi will you be stuff" and stuffed it up a gooberfish, so...)

There were two characters in the Mandalorian armor. Not just Boba Fet.

So aside from the amusing copycat that was Jodo (which fits into the whole non-unique Mandalorian armor being a joke), who are you referring to?

'cuz Mr.Kiwi McAwesomepaintjob is exactly what I'm talking about in terms of Lucas adding pointless extra Mandalorians into Star Wars.

It's a Mythosaur skull, a Mandalorian sigil, and it irritates me to no end that FFG picked it to use for the S/V faction symbol.

Why? The most famous bounty hunter / mercenary in the franchise used it. Makes perfect sense to me.

Because Jango Fett was a mandalorian, so all the clones were as was Boba

That's really more on Lucas for spreading Mandalorians all over the place like that. When it was just Boba Fett with the Mandalorian armor it made sense (but then again Georgie also took the uniqueness of the Jedi and all the "last of the Jedi will you be stuff" and stuffed it up a gooberfish, so...)

There were two characters in the Mandalorian armor. Not just Boba Fet.

So aside from the amusing copycat that was Jodo (which fits into the whole non-unique Mandalorian armor being a joke), who are you referring to?

'cuz Mr.Kiwi McAwesomepaintjob is exactly what I'm talking about in terms of Lucas adding pointless extra Mandalorians into Star Wars.

Pointless or not, there should not be more "perfect snowflake" jedi than man-at-arms Mandalorians.

Because mages must be rare, and well-trained mercenary warrior culture breeds more heroes than Fenris does!

Why would you consider clones Mandalorians, just because Jango apparently was one?

You don't spontaneously inherit culture and upbringing.

Nobody said clones are.

But making mandalorians extinct is a bad idea and it makes the galaxy bleaker and even more black-and-white